Assistant Editor, Practical Law (Global)

TRSS; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Assistant Editor in the Practical Law team, where you will leverage your legal knowledge to create and maintain high-quality content for legal professionals. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work while contributing to a culture of continuous learning and development. Be part of a team that values flexibility, work-life balance, and social impact, all while shaping the future of legal publishing. If you're passionate about legal writing and eager to make a real-world impact, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Work-life balance initiatives

Career development programs

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid volunteer days

Mental health support

Tuition reimbursement

Access to wellness resources

Qualifications

• Law degree or equivalent with strong academic performance.
• Experience in legal publishing or editorial work is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain legal content across various formats.
• Review and edit contributions from internal and external authors.

Skills

Excellent writing skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work independently

Time management

Education

Undergraduate Law Degree (2:1 or above)

Postgraduate Diploma in Law

Job description

We are seeking a law graduate, with some experience in a Legal or publishing environment to join the Practical Law team in the UK.

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence. Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers across law, tax, compliance, government and media.

About the role

As an Assistant Editor in the Practical Law Global team, you will use your developing legal knowledge and experience to assist your colleagues devise, provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in a supportive global team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:

• Creating new and maintaining existing materials spanning a variety of formats
• Reviewing and editing content written internally and externally
• Liaising with contributors in relation to their content
• Providing administrative and publishing support, ensuring content is produced in compliance with technical and editorial requirements, and maintaining internal database

In addition to this, an Assistant Editor will assist:

• The wider Thomson Reuters editorial teams, liaising with sales, marketing, product management, technology and segment functions where necessary

About You:

Mandatory:

• Undergraduate Law Degree (2:1 or above), or undergraduate degree in a subject other than Law (2:1 or above) and Postgraduate Diploma in Law.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience of working to deadlines and ability to prioritise and manage own workload.

Desirable:

• Knowledge or experience in international or cross border legal practice or legal publishing experience including editing content written by contributors who do not have English as a first language.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in legal writing and presenting complex information in clear and novel (for example visual or interactive) ways.
• Knowledge/interest or experience of using AI and LLM models, including prompting techniques.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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